Dominic Head
Biographic Data
| ID | 454506 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dominic Head |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dominic |
| FAMILY NAME | Head |
| SIGNATURE | HEAD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6110-5373 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Post-growth living
‘The farming community revisited
This essay examines a complex nostalgic twenty-first century trend in the farming-community novel about rural England, tracing its roots back to the earlier twentieth century, when a much stronger tradition of rural fiction – in some ways comparable to the contemporary resurgence of nature writing – had its heyday, especially concerning the impact of the First World War on farming communities and rural life, and the ensuing social consequences in…
The Cambridge History of the English Short Story
The Cambridge History of the English Short Story is the first comprehensive volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Charting the origins and generic evolution of the English short story to the present day, and written by international experts in the field, this book covers numerous transnational and historical connections between writers, modes and forms of transmission. Suitable for English literature students and scho…
Cambridge History of the English Short Story
The Cambridge Introduction to J. M. Coetzee
The South African novelist and Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee is widely studied around the world and attracts considerable critical attention. With the publication of Disgrace Coetzee began to enjoy popular as well as critical acclaim, but his work can be as challenging as it is impressive. This book is addressed to students and readers of Coetzee: it is an up-to-date survey of the writer's fiction and context, written accessibly for those new to h…
Poisoned Minds
Negotiating the Past
Negotiating the Past: The making of memory In South Africa Get access Negotiating the Past: The making of memory In South Africa, edited by Sarah Nuttall and Carli Coetzee. Cape Town: Oxford University Press Southern Africa, 1998. xii+300pp. £14.99 paperback. ISBN 0-19-571503-9. DOMINIC HEAD DOMINIC HEAD University of Central England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 98, Issue 391, Ap…
J. M. Coetzee
The importance of J. M. Coetzee in the development of twentieth-century fiction is widely recognised. His work addresses some of the key issues of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: the relationship between postmodernism and postcolonialism, the role of history in the novel, and the question of how the author can combine an ethical and political consciousness with a commitment to the novel as a work of fiction. In this study, wr…
Nadine Gordimer
The award to Nadine Gordimer of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991 was an affirmation of her distinctive contribution to twentieth-century fiction and to the creation of a literature that challenges apartheid. In this study, which may be used as an introduction as well as by those already familiar with Gordimer's work, Dominic Head discusses each of her novels in detail, paying close attention to the texts both as a reflection of events and s…
Nadine Gordimer
The award to Nadine Gordimer of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991 was an affirmation of her distinctive contribution to twentieth-century fiction and to the creation of a literature that challenges apartheid. In this study, which may be used as an introduction as well as by those already familiar with Gordimer's work, Dominic Head discusses each of her novels in detail, paying close attention to the texts both as a reflection of events and s…
J. M. Coetzee
The importance of J. M. Coetzee in the development of twentieth-century fiction is widely recognised. His work addresses some of the key issues of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: the relationship between postmodernism and postcolonialism, the role of history in the novel, and the question of how the author can combine an ethical and political consciousness with a commitment to the novel as a work of fiction. In this study, wr…
Negotiating the Past
Negotiating the Past: The making of memory In South Africa Get access Negotiating the Past: The making of memory In South Africa, edited by Sarah Nuttall and Carli Coetzee. Cape Town: Oxford University Press Southern Africa, 1998. xii+300pp. £14.99 paperback. ISBN 0-19-571503-9. DOMINIC HEAD DOMINIC HEAD University of Central England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 98, Issue 391, Ap…
Poisoned Minds
The Cambridge Introduction to J. M. Coetzee
The South African novelist and Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee is widely studied around the world and attracts considerable critical attention. With the publication of Disgrace Coetzee began to enjoy popular as well as critical acclaim, but his work can be as challenging as it is impressive. This book is addressed to students and readers of Coetzee: it is an up-to-date survey of the writer's fiction and context, written accessibly for those new to h…
The Cambridge History of the English Short Story
The Cambridge History of the English Short Story is the first comprehensive volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Charting the origins and generic evolution of the English short story to the present day, and written by international experts in the field, this book covers numerous transnational and historical connections between writers, modes and forms of transmission. Suitable for English literature students and scho…
Cambridge History of the English Short Story
‘The farming community revisited
This essay examines a complex nostalgic twenty-first century trend in the farming-community novel about rural England, tracing its roots back to the earlier twentieth century, when a much stronger tradition of rural fiction – in some ways comparable to the contemporary resurgence of nature writing – had its heyday, especially concerning the impact of the First World War on farming communities and rural life, and the ensuing social consequences in…
Post-growth living
History (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · History and criticism (4 works) · South African History and Culture (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Criticism and interpretation (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)